Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor. — Edgar Fiedler Copy Share Image
The main insight learned from interdisciplinary studies is the return to specialization — George Stigler Copy Share Image
Physicists only talk to physicists, economists to economists-worse still, nuclear physicists only talk to nuclear physicists and econometricians to econometricians. One wonders… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
A natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy is going; this is… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
I want a one-armed economist, that way he cannot say, 'on the other hand'. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry.… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
One the one hand, our economists treat human beings as rational actors making choices to maximize their own economic benefit. On the… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the distribution of uncertainty among economists, the public only gets to hear from those who have certain opinions. — Herbert Stein Copy Share Image
Economists get impatient with philosophy. They are often trained as skilled mathematicians. They don't like going back to ordinary language and first… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
The study of economic organization commonly proceeds as though market and administrative modes of organization were disjunct. Market organization is the province… — Oliver E. Williamson Copy Share Image
Our belief in salvation through the market is very much in the Utopian tradition. The economists and managers are the servants of… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Climate policy has almost nothing to do anymore with environmental protection, says the German economist and IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer. The next… — Ottmar Edenhofer Copy Share Image
One effect of benefit-cost analysis is to give any respectable engineer or economist a means for justifying almost any kind of project… — Gilbert F. White Copy Share Image
Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The consequences for human welfare involved in questions like these are simply staggering: once one starts to think about them, it is… — Robert Lucas, Jr Copy Share Image
If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Economists have the correct insight that economics is a theory of choice, the key to the story is the variety of options… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal… — Nassau William Senior Copy Share Image
“The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts .... He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher—in some degree. He must understand… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The fundamental differences between Marxian and traditional orthodox economics are, first, that the orthodox economists accept the capitalist system as part of… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
I'm an economist, I do a lot of forecasting, and I'm probably one of the most successful forecasters in terms of very… — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image
Liberal economists conceive of societies as black boxes connected by exchange rates; as long as exchange rates are correct, what goes on… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
